Smithsonian Magazine offers up a few other ancient creatures that could fit the bill, including Nile crocodiles, goannas, and ...

"Given the octopus' remarkable intelligence, adaptability, and diverse range of survival strategies, it wouldn't be the most ...

The discovery that Neanderthals and not Homo sapiens likely created the artwork is challenging longstanding beliefs that ...

The third man phenomenon is most often seen in people facing extreme peril in which they felt a presence that helped lead ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) have discovered ancient footprints near Sacheon City in South Korea. Initially thought to have been made by a flying reptile ...

The origins of the Gambino crime family are not all that different from those of the Genoveses. In fact, it was Giuseppe Morello’s ally Ignazio Lupo, also known as “Lupo the Wolf,” who started the ...

While the other gangs in the Five Families date back to before the Castellammarese War, the Colombo family didn’t come about until 1928. Then, Joe Profaci put together a bootlegging gang that would ...

The Barbie doll is one of the most recognizable toys in the world, and it’s all thanks to a woman named Ruth Handler. In 1959, when Handler introduced Barbie, the toy quickly took the world by storm.

When the Five Families were first recognized, what’s now the Bonanno family was known as the Maranzano family. After Salvatore Maranzano was murdered in 1931, Lucky Luciano awarded leadership of ...

The history of the Lucchese crime family doesn’t go back quite as far as that of the Genovese and Gambino families. While it was originally formed by members of the Morello gang who had split off, it ...

Hidden for 1,800 years, a tiny silver amulet buried in a Roman grave near Frankfurt, Germany, has now revealed the earliest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. In 2018, archaeologists ...

"The men who belong to this family of peoples," the 8th century Tunisian historian Ibn Khaldun remarked of the Berbers, according to the BBC, "have inhabited the Maghreb since the beginning." Indeed, ...